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10 Dec 2016 12:52:51am

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This is made all the worse by me knowing you're serious, not just trolling, but I'll bite.

Thermodynamics isn't a problem for the Big Bang, for several reasons. Firstly, as you later point out about quantum physics, the laws of physics as we know them may well not apply - if there wasn't space or time prior to the Big Bang, it's kind of hard to see how laws that fundamentally assume time could work. Secondly, in cyclic Big Bang->Big Crunch models the energy is always and has always been there, so that's an option. Thirdly, thermodynamics is statistical - there is a nonzero (but extremely small) probability of heat flowing from a cold object to a hot object. In a universe that's already suffered heat death - energy is maximally distributed - you can still, with nonzero probability, get a heat exchange (that will very quickly then get exchanged back). And given infinite time, all probabilities are either one or zero. So there's another cyclic model where ex-universes that suffered heat death get lucky.

Second, on the topic abiogenesis: you're talking out of your rear. There are so many theories on how abiogenesis could have happened that it's difficult to figure out which one, if any, is what 'really happened'. We know of so, so many ways to build simple chemical replicators. See http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/abioprob/originoflife.html

Your further claims about genetics are just outright nonsense, swirled about with your continued misunderstanding that evolution is supposed to represent 'progress', not just change.

That's just the scientific errors. Your ethics and epistemology is similarly broken, and even a cursory inspection of articles by actual atheists writing about what they actually think, rather than what your local religious figure tells you we think, will make it very, very clear how wrong you are.